A defiant President Vladimir Putin on Monday called the Ukrainian army a "NATO foreign legion," reflecting his readiness to stand up to the West regardless of rising economic costs, as Standard & Poor's rating agency downgraded Russia's credit...

Judy and Allen Blair moved to the lake area in 1973 after meeting and falling in love at Southwest Baptist University. The pair lived in Kansas City for about a year before they decided to move back to Allen's roots.

Two witnesses who raised questions about their initial interviews with the Missouri State Highway Patrol in the aftermath of the coroner's inquest into the drowning death of 20-year Brandon Ellingson prompted the special prosecutor in the case to...

President Barack Obama is proposing to designate the vast majority of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a wilderness area, including its potentially oil-rich coastal plain, drawing an angry response from top state elected officials who see...